Walk into a great room like this one and the first thing that greets you is not the stone or the leather — it is the light. A shaft of late afternoon sun cuts diagonally across the wide-plank floor, climbing the base of the fireplace and warming the seams between the stones.
That single move, glass on one side and a massive masonry wall on the other, is the quiet logic behind the best Western style home design. The house is arranged so the sun has somewhere to land, and everything it touches looks better for it.
